(JTA) — For more than five months, the date of Oct. 7 has instantly evoked images of horror in the minds of Israelis as the bloodiest day in the country’s history and the deadliest for Jews since the ...

3. According to Leviticus 23:26-32: “The Lord said to Moses, that the tenth day of this seventh month [Tishrei] is the Day of Atonement…. Do not do any work on that day…. This is a lasting ordinance ...

Jewish people observe the High Holy Days in the month of Tishrei in the Jewish calendar, starting this year on the evening of September 22. These holidays commemorate concepts such as renewal, ...

Israel’s government cabinet unanimously approved the establishment of an annual day of remembrance to mark the October 7 massacre by some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists who left at least 1,200 people dead ...

The two-day holiday known as Rosh Hashanah kicks off the beginning of the Jewish "High Holidays," a ten-day period of repentance and reflection that culminates with Yom Kippur, also known as the Day ...

ATTLEBORO — Congregation Agudas Achim, the city’s only synagogue, is offering services for the High Holy Days, from Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) through the end of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).

PLATTSBURGH — The shofar, a ram’s horn, is an ancient alert blown during the Jewish High Holidays beginning at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, with Rosh Hashanah at Temple Beth Israel, 1 Bowman St., ...